Here's The First Look At The Italian Typhoons Providing NATO Air Defense To Iceland

As explained on a
previous post, on Jun. 11 (a day after it was originally
planned), Italian Eurofighter with 4°, 36° and 37° Stormo
(Wings) deployed to Keflavik Airbase, Iceland to provide a
NATO air defense capability to the Northern European country that
does not operate autonomous airspace surveillance aircraft.

“Operation Icy Skies” includes
maintenance and support personnel as well as air defence
controllers from GRCDA (Air Surveillance Squadron), 21st and 22nd
Radar Squadron, respectively, based in Poggio Renatico (Ferrara),
Poggio Ballone (Grosseto) e Licola (Naples), that provide
reporting and control services and airspace surveillance services
within the Iceland AOR (area of responsability).

The
Aviationist

The Italian involvement in Iceland’s air defense is a clear
example of the new NATO strategic concept that encourages asset
and cost sharing, as well as capability pooling.

Two KC-767A
aerial tankers (MM62227 and MM62228) ferried the Italian
Typhoons to Iceland on 11 June, in two flights; both departed the
following day.

The following images were taken
by Eggert Norðdahl at Keflavik, as the Typhoons (F-2000A according to the Italian
Mission Design Series) performed the first orientation and
dedicated training sorties required for the subsequent NATO
validation of the Italian Air Force assets.